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Learning in the world of Diddorol, and something you didn't know about Anderson Cooper

Posted by WJWalton on Wed 07 of Sept., 2011 10:57 PDT

NPR has the story of Larry Graykin, a Language Arts teacher at Barrington Middle School who has developed a role-playing game that helps his students learn in an exploratory fashion. You can give it a listen here, and visit Mr. Graykin's Diddorol website here.

And on US Weekly's website, one of the 25 things that we didn't know about Anderson Cooper was that he used to be a "D&D geek" as a kid. You can learn the other 24 things here.

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